{"id":40160,"date":"2017-08-06T07:31:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40160"},"modified":"2017-08-06T07:31:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:31:56","slug":"slipping-away-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/slipping-away-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipping Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<br \/>\nlovers took to the mountain<br \/>\nand lay under the sun in the grass,<br \/>\nhis hand on her thigh. She said, <em>I can<\/em>not<br \/>\nsurrender<em> a gift so precious <\/em>but<br \/>\nthis<em> memory will be yours to keep<\/em>.<br \/>\nShe laid his hand on her breast. The<br \/>\nsweet swell of succulent flesh took form<br \/>\nwithin his dreams, that place where<br \/>\nwishes and fantasies belie the<br \/>\nreality of rejection on the mountain.<br \/>\nHis moment, escaping like a hare<br \/>\nspooked by an approach too sudden, has<br \/>\npassed\u2014plans which were carefully lain.<\/p>\n<h4>(Prompt 8: golden shovel based on <em>Memory<\/em> by William Butler Yeats.)<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lovers took to the mountain and lay under the sun in the grass, his hand on her thigh. She said, I cannot surrender a gift so precious but this memory will be yours to keep. She laid his hand on her breast. The sweet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[2228,1614,1588,2374,15,10,1208,2648],"class_list":["post-40160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2017poetrymarathon","tag-fantasy","tag-golden-shovel","tag-golden-shovel-poem","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-wb-yeats","tag-yeats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41987,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40160\/revisions\/41987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}